#ABUNDANT HARVEST

[justana0kguy]

2023 OCTOBER 05 Thursday

"The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves."

~ Luke 10:2-3

[elminx]

Kitchen Witch Recipes: A Harvest Soup Ritual

With this recipe, I use a different technique than usually applied to kitchen magic (where you apply an individual intention to each ingredient). Instead, the ingredients in our soup are stand-ins for the abundance/wins we have experienced over this growing season. This isn't so much a creation spell as it is an acknowledgment ritual.

As this recipe is written, we are using five main ingredients in this spell; to begin, you should sit down and determine five wins you have had over this harvest season*. These can be big wins like buying a house or getting a new job or smaller wins like getting outside to walk for your stupid mental health on most days. You will want to connect each of your five wins to one of our five ingredients: onion, celery, garlic, apple, and potato. This can be done arbitrarily or with intense purpose as you see fit.

*Whatever that means for you.

This ritual is quite simple. After you have set up your kitchen space as you like to for magic, you begin by becoming better acquainted with your ingredients. As I clean and prepare each of my five ingredients, I like to speak to each and talk about the win that they represent. I use my voice to connect my ingredient with the gratitude that I feel for what has gone my way. You can carve into your ingredients with a pairing knife to write out your win or use sigils during this time. If you do energy work, you can fill the produce with gratitude or your heart's energy. This is the main working of this spell and where you should be spending the most time.

Because we will blend this soup, you do not need to cut your produce into any particular-sized pieces. It helps to cut into equal-sized pieces, but this is unnecessary.

Note here: do your apples last if you are carving into your produce since they will oxidize and turn brown, which is unpleasant

From here, you can continue onwards to make your soup. You can add any kitchen magic here that you like to use in your practice. I like to stir my soup in a clockwise motion since this is a positive working, but this is, of course, up to you. I continue to speak words of gratitude over my soup as I prepare it and I thank each ingredient as I introduce it into my soup. Do what feels right for you here.

When it comes time to blend the soup together, say something like, "As I blend these moments of achievement together, I acknowledge how far I/we have come." As the soup is being served, I might say, "I serve up our past blessings to fuel me/us for future wins."

You will need:

1 Large Yellow Onion

2 stalks Celery

Garlic to taste (I used six to represent abundance)

2 large yellow or red potatoes (or 1 Russett)

2 large or 3 small red apples (pick the ones you like)

Herbs to taste (use what you have)*

A blender, immersion preferably

Salt, pepper

Cooking oil (I use butter)

4 cups Broth (vegetable or chicken) plus two cups water

Parmesan cheese (optional)

Heat oil, add all the produce except your garlic, and slowly cook on moderate heat until the onion is translucent, and the produce has reduced in half - this should take 10-15 minutes. Salt moderately during this step to bring out the flavors and cleanse your ingredients.

Add in your chopped garlic and cook until fragrant

Add in your spice, broth, and water, and bring to a boil

Decrease to a light simmer and cook for 30 minutes

Blend until smooth; Salt and Pepper to Taste

Top with parmesan if using, and serve with a crusty loaf of bread

I don't peel my produce for this soup, but you can do it if you prefer. If you like a chunkier soup, you can blend half of it and return it to the pot. I imagine a dollop of pesto would be amazing on top, but I haven't tried that yet.

*You can spice this soup in any way you prefer for a vegetable soup. My partner and I make a spice from our farmshare herbs (basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano, sage, and savory) that is lovely on vegetables, so I use that. Any Italian blend will work. You can easily add additional intentions into this soup if you wish with your herb choice.

What I like about this ritual is that it is a great way to include other people who may not think magically in a ritual without it being too over the top. To include your entire household in this, you can choose 5 wins for your household and assign one to each ingredient. The carrots could be "Dad's raise" and the potatoes "Jimmy's Straight A's in Allegbra". If you are focused on your wins, the soup should be shared with you and your spirits; if you are focused on your family's wins, share it with the whole family.

This is, as usual, meant to be a starting point for a ritual - you should add your magic in any way that makes sense for your practice. You could adapt this idea by applying it to a different meal. I suggest using late-season/harvest ingredients for this, whatever you make, as that best aligns with this ritual's concept.

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[darlingdtarot]

“This November will bring me Abundance in my Manifestations Coming To Harvest, Gratitude, Protection, Warmth, and Love.”

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[oldfarmhouse]

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[astrosouldivinity]

Full Moon: Journal Prompts ⋆ ☄︎.·˚ * 🔭

There will be a Full (Harvest) Moon on Tuesday October 17th which will be in the sign Pisces. ♓��

This is a good time to release any emotional baggage and set your intentions. ☪︎ 🙏🏿 ☪︎

⋆˙⟡☾𖤓☽ ⟡˙⋆ ⋆˙⟡☾𖤓☽ ⟡˙⋆ ⋆˙⟡☾𖤓☽ ⟡˙⋆ ⋆˙⟡☾𖤓☽ ⟡˙⋆

🤍 1. What emotional baggage am I ready to release and how has holding onto this baggage affected me?

🖤 2. How can I better trust my intuition? For instance, journaling about a time when listening to my gut led me to a positive outcome.

🤍 3. What are my intentions for this lunar cycle? List three things I want to attract into my life.

🖤 4. In what areas of my life do I seek growth and abundance? What steps can I take to nurture these aspects?

🤍 5. How have my emotions shifted recently? What do these changes tell me about my current needs and desires?

🖤 6. What dreams or aspirations have I been neglecting? How can I bring them back into focus?

🤍 7. What am I grateful for at this moment? How can gratitude help me release negativity and attract positivity?

🖤 8. How can I express my emotions in a healthy way? What creative outlets can I explore to process my feelings?

[misterhickory]

[wiirocku]

Psalm 65:11 (NLT) - You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.

[shiningshenanigans]

Autumn, at its core, is about celebrating abundance. Historically, it was the time of year when the harvest came in, so that meant that there was plenty of food to share and enjoy, without any fear that it would run out soon. The hard work of the summer was over, the weather was beginning to cool in a comforting way, and the dangers of winter were still far off. Autumn in its truest form is a season of rest. A time to enjoy the "First Fruits", the best of what a year's work has brought us (which is an incredibly biblical thing to do, BTW; Israel was commanded to celebrate the harvest/first fruits with multiple feasts in the OT).

All the hype around fall in our culture makes perfect sense. Even in our modern, less-agrarian-than-it-used-to-be society, I think we still feel that Harvest Time Hype™ deep in our souls. Since humans are workers/gardeners by nature, it's only makes sense that we would find the season where we get to see all of our labors come to fruition utterly magical.

But there's also a darkness to fall, and this, I think, is the secret ingredient that makes its beauty so devastating at the end of the day. Fall is a season where things are constantly changing. The leaves on the trees are never the same color two days in a row. The days keep getting shorter. The air may be soft and sunny one day, and then the next it may be chilly and brisk. There's a looming, dreadful sense that winter - hardship, darkness, death - is coming, and the longing to celebrate the abundance we have now is made even stronger by the knowledge of what's to come. It's the seven years of plenty before the next seven years of famine.

That's honestly one of my favorite things about Halloween - it heralds in fall, the season of abundance, by making us face our greatest fears. "If you want to get through to the Thanksgiving Feasts on the other side of this season, you must first pass through death. You must walk bravely through a night haunted by evil spirits that want to steal your joy. You are right to fear them, but you must not let your fear keep you in your house, away from all the harvest blessings that your neighbors want to share with you. You must face them. You must disguise yourself and go out into the night to gather those blessings. In the morning, the evil will be gone, but you will have your abundance."

Spring and summer might be seasons of great hope, but the joy they bring is decidedly comfortable, since it’s not going anywhere any time soon. Because the ground hasn’t yielded yet, there’s nothing to lose, and no reason to fear we might loose it. Autumn is different. It’s the exact opposite, in fact. During autumn, we have everything to loose, and reminders lurking around every corner that we will loose it, sooner or later. Autumn is a fleeting, restless kind of joy, a desperate kind. It's when we start saying, "No, Lord, please... don't let the darkness come back just yet. Don't make me go through that season of death again. Let me just enjoy the harvest a little longer."

It's going to take more than my earthly lifetime to decode why I find this time of year so enchanting, but I do think that scratches the surface a little bit.

[plasmagrrl]

Finvarra

[thedreadblog]

It's the fourth time this week that I've had to up the posting frequency of my queue.

It was 6 times a day.

Now it's 12.

Why?

Because my queue keeps getting LONGER despite me reblogging loads still and constantly upping the posting frequency.

I love this timeline, all the new art, the posts, the meta, people reacting to details, posting and reposting fanfic, new updates and information....gods, what a time to be alive ♥️

[blujayonthewing]

thinkin about how if gnomes are partially insectivorous and also live underground in the woods then Cicada Emergence is 1000% a huge cultural event, probably with religious significance, and cicadas would hold tremendous cultural importance both literally and symbolically

[adventure-mary]

☺️ Viburnum is kinda a national plant in Ukraine. Not only it's beautiful, it also has a lot of health benefits. And if cooked the right way, viburnum preserves is one of the tastiest preserves ever.

[artistandtales]

Day 27 Renenutet! #renenutet #goddessoffertility #abundance #digitalart #harvest #egyptianmythology #digitalart #akhtober #egyptian #drawing #mythology #art #day27 #digitaldrawing #magic #pagan #witchcraft #illustration #simple #kemetic #firealpaca #artist #artistoninstagram #myart #dahkyarts #artistoftales #artistonig

[tilbageidanmark]

First harvest.

[yourmamaganoush]

Rewilding 🍃🌱🍄🌼

[ancestorsalive]